Zhao Qingyan simply laughed off Xu Dongsheng's bizarre request, and of course, notified the Zhao family to give Xu Dongsheng enough peace and quiet.

Sure enough, after work that day, Xu Dongsheng did not go back to the Zhao family's house for dinner, but instead went to a roadside stall and ate a bowl of soup noodles.

Upon returning to the Zhao family home, he did not greet anyone. He fetched water to wash up by himself, and as usual, read a book before going to bed.

I went out early the next morning and ate a bowl of soup noodles by the roadside, this time with an extra fried egg.

Upon arriving at the Hanlin Academy, he was instructed to organize the annual gazettes as he had the previous day, marking important events and memorizing them.

When lunch break came, I took out the pancakes and boiled eggs I bought from the street vendor that morning, sat down in my seat, and started eating.

The food, which already had little flavor, somehow evoked a sense of loneliness.

As he ate, he thought about the lively scenes of eating with the Zhao family.

The more he tried not to think about it, the more his wife's face kept appearing in front of him.

Finally, Xu Dongsheng couldn't eat the pancake anymore, so he wrapped it in oil paper.

I drank a glass of water, told my boss I was leaving, and then I left.

He didn't go anywhere else, but went to find Han Xuri.

Han Xuri was indeed in the princess's residence.

Upon arriving at the princess's residence, Xu Dongsheng vaguely sensed a familiar feeling.

Look at the screen wall, then look at the pomegranate tree in the middle of the courtyard.

Then there's the large water vat in the courtyard, and even every stone slab underfoot seems to hold a memory.

When Xu Dongsheng was invited into the living room, his eyes were red.

The butler stared intently at Xu Dongsheng.

"They look so alike, so incredibly alike."

Naturally, everyone in the Princess's residence knew who he was referring to.

Han Xuri was extremely excited when he learned that Xu Dongsheng had come.

The voice arrives before the person.

"You finally decided to come over, kid. So, what do you want from your brother?"

Upon entering the living room and seeing Xu Dongsheng's appearance, Han Xuri was still taken aback.

"No, little brother, what's wrong with you? Who bullied you? Tell me, and I'll go beat him up."

Xu Dongsheng shook his head.

"Brother, I think I can remember some things from when I was a child."

Han Xuri was initially delighted, then greatly shocked.

"No, little brother, when you disappeared, you seemed to be just a baby who couldn't talk much. Are you sure that's a memory and not a hallucination?"

This is a common way of thinking; it is said that children cannot remember things that happened before the age of three.

Xu Dongsheng nodded.

"Brother, do you believe in innate knowledge? Back then, it wasn't that I couldn't speak, but that I was afraid to speak."

I'm afraid I'll scare people.

"Believe it or not, I could clearly hear sounds outside even when I was in my mother's womb."

Han Xuri was nearly scared to death by his younger brother. He dismissed his attendants and pulled Xu Dongsheng aside to ask him questions.

"Come on, tell me what you remember, and what exactly happened between you and Mom back then?"

Xu Dongsheng organized his thoughts.

“I remember when my mother was pregnant with me, you would always run up to her and call her ‘sister.’”

Every time, Mom says it's your younger brother, but you just won't believe her.

You even made a bet with your mother that it would definitely be a little sister. If your mother lost, she would have to buy you ten sugar figurines.

Later, you stopped calling her "sister" and instead called her "sugar doll" whenever you saw her.

That's why my nickname after I was born was Sugar Man.

When you found out I was a younger brother, you burst into tears. You even said you were out of sugar figurines and wanted me to give you ten more.

After hearing this, Han Xuri was completely dumbfounded. This was Xu Dongsheng's first time visiting the General's Mansion, so these things definitely weren't something someone gossiped about.

"No, you really remember? My goodness, that's terrifying!"

Give me a moment to process this; this is just too outrageous!

No, no, brother, remember this, you can't say this to anyone.

Those born with knowledge are prone to misfortune.

After Han Xuri calmed down,

Do you still remember how you and your mother met your demise?

A flash of disgust crossed Xu Dongsheng's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.

"Does my brother still remember my wet nurse?"

She had an affair with her father.

Actually, my father didn't like me; he just used the opportunity of seeing me to get close to my wet nurse.

What's even worse is that the two of them actually did something indecent to me, a mere baby.

At first I would cry and make a fuss, but then I was given sleeping pills.

For a while after that, I was in a daze, and then I stopped crying and making a fuss.

Whenever my father came to see me, I would pretend to be asleep.

Once I overheard that woman saying that the manpower had already been arranged, and asked when the prince consort would arrange for the princess to go up the mountain.

As a result, when my mother and I went up the mountain together, we were attacked and killed on our way back.

My mother was sitting in the carriage holding me. With so many guards, we were sure we would be safe.

The woman kept screaming, "What will happen to the princess? Will she die?"

The mother was displeased and told her to shut up, then lifted the curtain to look outside.

I guess the woman pushed my mother, and my mother and I tumbled out of the carriage.

When the guards saw that my mother and I had fallen, they rushed over to help us up, but one of them was shot through the heart from behind.

Then I was snatched away, and my mother was kicked and fell to the ground.

I don't remember what happened after that. I was crying so hard at the time, my face was covered in the blood of the guard who was helping the woman.

Perhaps because I was too frightened, I neither cried nor made a fuss. For a long time after I was adopted by my adoptive parents, I remained silent.

At first, they both mistook him for a fool.

At this point, Xu Dongsheng smiled slightly.

"One day I stood in front of my adoptive father and said that I was not a fool."

I don't want to talk because their questions are too childish.

Then my adoptive parents spent a lot of money to buy writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones to teach me to read and write.

Later, I went to a private school.

Those were the happiest times I've had since I was born.

When Xu Dongsheng finished speaking, he looked up at Han Xuri, whose face was ashen.

"What a fine Han Guangye, what a fine Qiu family..."

Enraged, Han Xuri summoned his secret guards to immediately investigate Han Guangye.

After everything was arranged, he regained some of his composure.

"You must have other things to do here today, right?"

Xu Dongsheng nodded.

"There is something I want to discuss with my elder brother and uncle. I don't want to continue working at the Hanlin Academy."

I want to go with my father-in-law and his family, preferably to Kenchin, a neighboring city of Davar.

Not only will I be able to get closer to my wife then, but we can also help each other out.

I don't want to wait three years until my wife has already fallen for another young man.

Han Xuri was quite surprised by Xu Dongsheng's infatuation.

"Are you so sure you won't marry anyone but Zhao Qingyan? It's perfectly normal for a real man to have three wives and four concubines."

Xu Dongsheng glanced at Han Xuri's two legs, then his eyes swept over Han Xuri's third leg.